Spring Gardening
Courtesy of The New York Public Library
As mentioned earlier, Dr. Alvenia Fulton’s parents owned and operated a successful 156 and half-acre family farm in Pulaski in Giles County, Tennessee. In the spring, the family planted legumes, greens, vegetables, and tubers. They also grains including sorghum for making molasses. The family kept beehives with honey producing bees and maintained 16 acres of orchards with apple, pear, and peach trees. From the apple orchards they made cider and apple cider vinegar. The food they grew proved one of the farms greatest sources of revenue on the farm. One third they consumed farm to table style as part of their daily meals. Another third they canned, pickled, preserved and the last third of the harvest they sold directly to consumers at local markets in Pulaski and Columbia, Tennessee.